them to me. just as moderate republicans have disappeared from the united states senate and certainly the united states house of representatives, they have disappeared from the united states supreme court, and that to me is the most significant thing about the supreme court, which is the decisions they reach, why they reach them, and why those decisions matter to people in the real world. >> all right, finally, we have todd peppers of roanoke college, and robert, who wrote a book on the justices' law clerks and which. the new book, in chambers, is a fascinating collection of narratives and essays from clerks about their justices. so todd and art, can you tell us those stories and how they reveal something about the court and the clerks? >> approximately five years ago, i came up to washington, dc to interview a guy named william coleman, jr. mr. coleman, who is now, i think, 93, and works 12-hour days in d.c., was of interest to me as a subject because he was the first black law clerk on the supreme court. i came up, got a good rate to stay at the a mayflower hotel near washington, dc
